Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 2 | When you ca n't do the time , do n't do the crime turn to criminology you must be prepared to accept the punishment when they get caught |
| 3 | In the old films erm the saying was from one conduct to another , ‘ Do n't do the crime if you ca n't do the time . ’ |
| 4 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
| 5 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
| 6 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 7 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
| 8 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
| 9 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 10 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
| 11 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 12 | One can only imagine the time , the patience , the dedication , the sheer labour . |
| 13 | ‘ We can not waste the time , and you 'll be safer in Paris than Scotland . |
| 14 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 15 | Clearly , before the sound begins we can not measure the time it is going to take , but after it has sounded how can we measure it , since it is then no more ? |
| 16 | Every type of food is readily available and preparation and cooking have never been easier ; and if he can not spare the time , convenience foods reduce the time required for shopping and preparation to the bare minimum . |
| 17 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 18 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 19 | It may also have the effect of precluding those members who can not find the time to attend a few workshops and may therefore strengthen management committees and their bureaux in the long run . |
| 20 | On such occasions you can not afford the time , no matter how little , to set up a clip-on bobbin . |
| 21 | I can not afford the time to try everything and often refuse review loans , both of hardware and software . |
| 22 | We can not afford to pussyfoot around with it , we can not afford the time not to be on the move , on the move because that 's the only way our members are gon na dictate what they want . |
| 23 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 24 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 25 | No man is an island ; no smallholder can possibly find the time or produce all the skills needed for complete self-sufficiency . |
| 26 | In 1703 Bishop Nicholson records a Churchwarden 's remark characteristic of the sturdy independence of Dalesmen , ‘ Except the Vicar and the Schoolmaster , we have not a Gentleman among us , nor can any remember the time we had a Beggar . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 28 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 29 | What is the mid-point of the argument that some teachers do not want to reflect , others can never find the time for reflection and others feel it unnecessary ? |